If so, why are we letting them?
It’s not like we couldn’t stop it. We keep blaming others for problems we cause to ourselves.
The same question in 1800's china - why didn't they stop it?
Well, many people knew what was happening and some people tried, but the regime was too indebted, too bloated, too wrapped-up in palace intrigue and power-games in the capital, worried only about maintaining their own power. The elites felt it was a problem of peasants and lower-classes so far from them that it didn't matter. Eventually, China got their butts kicked militarily by foreign powers, civil wars broke out domestically, and eventually the emperor was powerless to control anything.
I hope we don't follow the same path.
I had my first appointment with my PCP at the VA clinic yesterday. I have 2 service-related disabilities, both orthopedic. He looked at my records and said, “In case you didn’t know, the VA will give you free pain meds”. Well, good to know but no.
Colonel, USAF JAGCR (Ret)